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"Collateral Damage" Blu-ray
Apt title. Arnold Schwarzenegger is Gordy Brewer, an L.A. fireman whose wife and son are killed by a terrorist's bomb in a scene that can't be viewed without recalling the terrorist attacks of 2001. The movie was made before 9-11, so really, it has no weight and is just what you expect from a Schwarzenegger movie--one filled with a string of unlikely scenarios featuring our pumped-up hero. Furious that the CIA isn't doing enough to catch the terrorist who murdered his family, Gordy sets out to bring the man, identified as an American-hating Colombian named The Woolf (Cliff Curtis), to justice on his own. Predictably, it's a journey peppered with peril and danger, but surprisingly little suspense or tension. As an actor, Schwarzenegger still has the emotional range of a cube steak, which serves him well in such films as, say, "Terminator 3," in which he plays a defunct robot programmed to have no emotions. But in a movie whose subject demands he showcase a range of pain and rage, Schwarzenegger proves he's not our wartime Everyman--or what this clumsy movie needs. Rated R. Grade: D

“No Country for Old Men: 2-Disc Collector’s Edition” Blu-ray
Creepy time down south. This Academy Award-winning, modern-day Western hails from Ethan and Joel Coen, who arm themselves with Cormac McCarthy’s fantastic 2005 book and craft a violent, engrossing movie that never telegraphs or condescends--it keeps its twists and its surprises close to its bleeding heart, which is significant because in this movie, that heart often is hemorrhaging. Set in 1980, the film stars Josh Brolin as Llewelyn Moss, a Vietnam veteran hunting one day along the Texas-Mexico border when he comes upon a grisly mass murder in the desert. There, he also comes upon a stash of drugs and, later, $2 million in cash sandwiched within a black case. It's when Moss takes the money that everything goes wrong. After all, working against him is the formidable psychopath Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem, perfect), a man determined to track Moss down, get that money for himself--and God help anyone who gets in his way. One person who does is Sheriff Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones), who completes the film’s deadly triangle by going after Moss and Chigurh. This superb movie is about the sly weaving of skill and chance that unfolds among them all, with the characters crisscrossing in and out of each other’s reach with such mounting heat, they create a knot onscreen that tightens deep in your gut. The collector’s edition includes a digital copy, featurettes, interviews and behind-the-scenes footage. Rated R. Grade: A